NFTs and the Future of Art

The importance of digital authorship.

Ellis Brooks
OneZero
Published in
15 min readDec 17, 2021

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Julie Blackmon, Homegrown Food (2012). Pigment print available at Edelman Gallery. Also minted as an NFT and listed at Quantum.

Multiple things can be true at once, even when they appear to be contradictory. Granite, for example, can be both solid and ethereal. Hold a chunk of it in the palm of your hand and it’s clearly a rock. View it at the atomic level and it’s a galaxy of particles. How you’d describe it depends entirely upon your frame of reference.

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Ellis Brooks
OneZero

Writer. Historian. Harlot. Supremely sex-positive and pseudonymous. she/her